Crossword for Wed, 20/Oct/2021

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Across
2: Like a high ranking diplomat's awful ambrosia salad (13)

8: In conversation, lists charges (5)

10: Ensemble torches tram's interior (9)

12: Diet I'm crazy about will eventually set boundaries (7)

13: Become less formal, and recommend accepting trio of Hawkeyes (4,3)

14: Companion to take care of worker (9)

16: Almost reveal Nationals' former identity (5)

18: Fancy brush? (5)

21: Ale curing outbreak of nervous pain (9)

24: Almost admire Mr. Gore, a naval officer (7)

26: After start of century, Maud, I'm mixing a yellow pigment (7)

27: Top colleges have three miles of vine (3,6)

28: Romero races around (5)

29: Let not passion sway philosophers (3-10)
Down
1: Speaks about actor Alan, a youth (5,4)

3: Batsmen trading one who may be a winner? (4,3)

4: Town's rail transport, not express? (9)

5: Scarf free tacos (5)

6: Too old for love - a woman, for example, rejected (7)

7: Jumped for something extremely loose-fitting (5)

9: Oriental talc dispenser deserves acclaim (5)

11: Some gambling couple no longer in bed! (3-2)

15: Tarheels buried by swarming Hornet club (9)

17: Scores may appear amongst the trees (9)

19: Game for drunkard (5)

20: Might signal elbow exercise with this? (7)

22: Kidnaps sailors swimming around the Channel (7)

23: Takes hold of travel-bags (5)

24: Neil Armstrong initially brought back extraterrestrial (5)

25: Slender flame's emanation (5)




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